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Justin Cortese

Justin Cortese

Warhammer 40k competitive player and podcast guest; winner of Best Xenos (Chaos Knights) at the American Team Champs.

Jul 10, 2026

3:24
there oh my god it's so good it's so good uh turning it into a tv series i think as i wanted to bring it up here because as warhammer nerds i think people will appreciate it anyway enough about that let's uh just get straight into before we get into the questions justin can you tell us about the event that you just went five and oh at where it was uh the the terrain layouts for the all official g w the whole kind of nine yards
3:48
Yeah, so the event was ATC, which is a Warhammer teams tournament.
3:54
They do fives and eights.
3:57
So I was participating in the fives, and at the start of the event we had 43 teams signed up, and then we had a mercenary team, so they just put a bunch of... extras that showed up from the local uh area together to make 44 in total um i don't off the top of my head what is that 240 players 220 i think yeah yeah it's a lot it's quite a few players yeah but uh teams in general is a different beast than solos you can You can kind of build a specific way to counter a specific archetype or you could bring all comers.
4:39
You could stat check in one specific area and so on and so forth.
4:44
There's things that everybody tries to do.

32 MINS LATER

36:31
So I'm really interested to kind of know, you know, what was your kind of thought process around whether you'd always roll, or whether you'd kind of want to take a fixed option, or like, you know, what were the sort of dread table things that you were looking for, and kind of how did that influence your macro choice into whatever army that you were
36:47
facing? I'm always rolling on the dread table to start the game.

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